oh Mr Spade, you make me swoon

[threeplusfire]

I'm watching The Maltese Falcon while I hide from the encroachment of summer. Gods above, I love Bogart. He's always well dressed, even when he is scruffy, and he is undeniably one of the most attractive leading men ever. There's something about his voice, and the way he moves. Maybe it's the hats. Maybe it is the way he talks. I don't know, but I sure do love it.

Woke up this morning with a headache from all that red wine and those cherries. Tyler and I went for lunch at Kerbey, which afforded us the opprotunity to note that people are both stupid and inconsiderate. You certainly can't trust anyone who finds it acceptable to wear hot pink and lime green together, much less allow their child to run around the table swinging a large stuffed animal around. Seriously, what is with this trend of fourty and fifty something folks wearing hoochie mama teenager clothes? You can still be a gorgeous attractive person in your middle years, but dressing like a high school Brittany wannabe does not make you attractive. It's not really attractive at any age, but there's something very disconcerting about seeing a woman trying to compete with her teenage daughter as far as how much midriff she can bare.

Afterwards we had some coffee with Sarah to finally assauge my hangover. It's brutal hot outside. Summer is here. But we talked, and caught up on the events of late. It's nice to know some of our fammily members are straightening their lives up. Some of them aren't, when it comes to those friends who are family. I'm a hair's breadth away from calling A&E's Intervention for someone I know, and that's not me joking.

Comments

[rm.livejournal.com]

I totally vote for A&E. This one deserves public humiliation.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

It could be a worthy sell, I really think.

[newbabel.livejournal.com]

Oh, I really want to talk to you about Casablanca!

Do you ever use Yahoo messenger or AIM?

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

I sometimes use AIM. Though it's weird, and I sometimes can't figure out how to set myself back when I'm no longer away. Cranky program. anyhow, I'm sometimes on as purebloodlm on there.

[daysprings.livejournal.com]

I love Bogart, too, and Casablanca is my second-favorite movie of all time, but I think my favorite line of his is from The Big Sleep:

Vivian (Bacall): I don't like your manners.
Marlowe (Bogart): I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't
like 'em myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them long winter
evenings.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Haha, I love that exchange! The Big Sleep is my all time favorite.

[delchi.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, yes, yes.

That and " She tried to sit in my lap, while I was standing up "

And who can deny the woman who runs the bookstore ( Not Geigers bookstore, the one where he camps out watching him )

Reminded me of the librarian in the Tears for Fears video " Head Over Heels "

[maggieb.livejournal.com]

here here! I'll agree with your statement that most folks are stupid and inconsiderate (and ill-fated dressers at that) I found you through blackrosesgirl/your evil meme. So, I introduce myself and ask your friendship. guten abend.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

I really can't claim credit for the meme-ness, as it is one of those things that just appears and disappears on the interweb. But hello, nice to meet you.

Dressing your minor

[trueliminality.livejournal.com]

It is always sad to see someone who is so uncomfortable with their age that they will dress like a teen girl, which in my opinion some teen girls should not dress like they do and I have thought that way since I was a teen. It is not a question of inappropriate but of displaying what you look like well.

Of course sometimes when someone dresses ten or twenty years there minor it is a clue that they might not have progressed past that stage to begin with.

Re: Dressing your minor

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

It is sad in some way that there is so much pressure to look a certain way that people feel the need to go to absurd lengths for it.

[coyotegoth.livejournal.com]

Bogart, and Mitchum- put them together along with a dash of Erich von Stroheim, and that's what I want to be when I grow up.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

A worthy goal, I think.